Example sentences of "to [pron] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm this whole problem does give ministers erm a great deal of tension and heart searching erm and er we 're in the throws of , of , of looking for a leaflet that 's gon na help ministers faced with er parents who come and have to be turned away because we feel embarrassed , we feel erm the weight of our , our turning away people and our inability to minister the grace of God to them , although I 'd of thought gravity of but er anyway erm er but we have this problem and erm it seems to me that one way out of it is to pick up on what our brother from the Church of England said and look at new rites , and new ways in which we can open our arms to a public out there which is desperately in need of rites of passage . |
| 2 | ‘ To me these three pieces are possibly better than anything written for my instrument . ’ |
| 3 | To me twenty two K |
| 4 | More affectionate is his account of Minton who had , as he records , ‘ been brought along to my flat one evening by Keith Vaughan , where he sat on the floor with a drink in his hand , laughing a great deal and saying very little . |
| 5 | I was going back to my flat one evening and I had no cause to feel unsafe . |
| 6 | Anyway , we won despite my failing to add to my vast 1992 tally of wickets . |
| 7 | Lot number twenty six Lot number twenty six , the grey jade pendant there 's the grey jade pendant showing Lot twenty six for thirty pounds at thirty , thirty five , forty , forty five , fifty for you sir , thank you , five sixty , sixty five seventy offered I 'm bid seventy in the centre now and selling for seventy , seventy five to my right eighty pounds eighty five eighty five , the lady 's offer , sir at eighty five pounds , any more at eight five pounds . |
| 8 | I drew myself up to my full 4 feet 8 inches , flared my pupils at the teacher , picked up my scarlet skirt , Vivien Leigh-style , and , with a thud , parquet met felt and felt met parquet . |
| 9 | You could go out to the walkways , you could talk to somebody twenty four hours a day . |
| 10 | Landsbergis , meeting Gorbachev in Moscow at the latter 's request on June 26 , had been told that a moratorium would signal a return by Lithuania to its pre-March 11 status , and Landsbergis claimed that this meant that negotiations would formally be between the Soviet Union and one of its constituent republics . |
| 11 | Powergen , one of the two major English electricity generating companies , is to fit flue gas desulphurization equipment ( FGD ) to its new 2,000 megawatt power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar , near Nottingham . |
| 12 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 13 | Sequent could start by offering Pentium upgrades to its current 486 machines and then move over to the new line . |
| 14 | Before its other Pentium-ready systems — see front page — Unisys Corp will this week announce three new additions to its U 6000/35 Unix server line based on Intel 's 66MHz 486DX2 chip , expected to enhance the old 33MHz box as a workgroup or departmental LAN server and as a distributed server node in an enterprise-wide OLTP network . |
| 15 | Country Music Television offers round-the-clock sessions to its 15.7 million subscribers . |
| 16 | America Online Inc is challenging Prodigy Services Co , which just announced plans to charge usage fees for the most heavily-used databases on its viewdata service , by cutting prices to its own 250,000 subscribers : the company says it deliberately waited until after the Prodigy announcement to disclose its new pricing , hoping to maximise attention for its move and woo subscribers away from the IBM Corp-Sears , Roebuck & Co joint venture ; under its new plan , subscribers will pay $9.95 a month for five hours of access to all its services , a rate that it claims is less than half the price of Prodigy 's new tariff ; extra hours will cost $3.50 each ; at Prodigy , subscribers pay $14.95 a month for unlimited access to many of the features but from July 1 will pay surcharges after spending two hours on widely-used bulletin boards . |
| 17 | Cleo Communications , Ann Arbor , Michigan , is offering a 32 user version of SCO 's uniPath SNA-3270 mainframe connectivity package plus interface board for $1,300 : however , in an attempt to persuade users to move to its own 3270 emulation package — 3270Linkix — the company is offering 32 user evaluation package , with board and documentation , for $700 . |
| 18 | Courage Ltd , sponsored the restoration to its full 1930s condition of the Members Club and Bar . |
| 19 | As a mutual company AMP is accountable to its 2 million policyholders . |
| 20 | HOUSESITTER Steve Martin gives fans a regulation dose of his endearingly gauche self and Goldie Hawn remains true to her kooky Sixties persona , but together they enact an often hilarious charade of married life and send-up of Rockwellian morality that makes this quirky comedy far from predictable . |
| 21 | She crouched down behind a row of freight cars and took in her surroundings : to her right a goods shed , to her left two sets of parallel track and a rusted freight car , its wheels barely visible through the tangled mass of overgrown weeds . |
| 22 | She said one of them spoke to her own four year old child . |
| 23 | Lisa pulled herself up to her full five feet three inches , wishing for an extra foot or so so that she could look him in the eye . |
| 24 | For a full second she was too stunned to move , but then she slapped his hand away , and , drawing herself up to her full five feet four , she glared at him furiously . |
| 25 | Fletcher , who , as captain , guided Essex to their first eight trophies between 1979 and 1985 , is widely expected to replace Micky Stewart at the end of this season when he retires , probably to take up a role with the TCCB . |
| 26 | West Hartlepool registered their expected win put up fighting resistance in losing 22–4 in stark contrast to their previous two matches , in which they conceded over 80 points . |
| 27 | West Hartlepool registered their expected win put up fighting resistance in losing 22–4 in stark contrast to their previous two matches , in which they conceded over 80 points . |
| 28 | Mercedes-Benz were the diesel car pioneers in the 30s and I grew quite attached to their big 300 diesel estate car , also with automatic transmission . |
| 29 | SIMON PARKE , 17 on Tuesday and England 's youngest ever international , helped his country to their third 3-0 victory , this time over The Netherlands , here yesterday , ensuring a place in the quarter-finals of the world team championships . |
| 30 | Looking for ways to cut the country 's output of greenhouse gases , the Kiwis have decided to feed anti-flatulence pills to their 60 million woollybacks |